By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com With Evanston City Council members still mulling their decision, the leading candidate to become the city’s next City Manager has accepted a job elsewhere, leaving the City at square one. The City issued a release today, stating that the leading candidate for the job, Daniel Ramos, had notified the City that…
By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com Evanston City Council members will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or otherwise show they have tested negative against the disease – facing censure or expulsion from meetings if they fail to comply. Mayor Daniel Biss recommended the resolution to amend the city’s rules under a proposal to be considered…
By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com One of Evanston’s major grassroots activist groups has backed Baltimore administrator Daniel Ramos to become Evanston’s next City Manager. Ramos is Deputy Chief of Staff/Deputy City Manager for the City of Baltimore. In its endorsement, Jan. 18, the group, Community Alliance for Better Government (CABG), cited Ramos’s responses on the role…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston will move forward with new initiatives to deter youth violence in 2022,tapping federal Covid recovery funds to pay for the programs. Council members voted 8-0 at their regular meeting, Monday, Jan. 9 to approve an allocation of $552,5000 of the $41.3 million in federal American Recovery Plan Act (ARPA) funds the…
By Bob Seidenberg Like it or not, the barnacle is about to return to Evanston after nearly a two-year absence. City officials announced the return of booting starting this month. A vehicle with three or more parking tickets can be immobilized, either through a metal boot placed on a wheel of a car, or a…
By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com A cardboard box salvaged from storage, some ping pong balls, and a colleague to record the ceremony — and you had all the ingredients needed to conduct a lottery determining which citizens would serve on a panel to interview Evanston’s two city manager finalists. Evanston City Clerk Stephanie Mendoza conducted the…
By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com Evanston is down to two candidates in its search for a new city manager. Michael Jasso, Assistant City Manager for the City of Sacramento, and Daniel Ramos, Deputy Chief of Staff/Deputy City Administrator for the City of Baltimore are the two finalists, the city just announced. A virtual town meeting with…
Interim City Manager Kelley A. Gandurski is pleased to announce the appointment of former Evanston Police Chief Richard Eddington to serve as the City’s interim police chief. Eddington, who served as Evanston police chief from 2007 through 2018, has more than 44 years of law enforcement experience. He will fill the role of Interim Chief…
Over the past week, Evanston has experienced a dramatic increase in the number of daily confirmed COVID-19 cases, prompting new mitigation recommendations from the City’s Health & Human Services Department to slow the spread of the disease. On Friday, Evanston reported 161 confirmed COVID-19 cases, the highest number of daily cases since the start of…
Evanston community members are invited to participate in two upcoming opportunities to provide feedback on the search for Evanston’s next city manager. Following a nationwide recruitment process, the City Council has narrowed its search to two finalists, to be named during the week of January 3. Community members will have the opportunity to meet the…
